Public Offering The Company is advised by you that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Securities as soon after the Registration Statement and this Agreement have become effective as in your judgment is advisable. The Company is further advised by you that the Securities are to be offered to the public upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus.
Initial Public Offering (a) In the event that at any time after the date hereof, the Board of Directors determines that it shall facilitate an offering of Equity Securities in the Company or a successor through an Initial Public Offering, then the Board of Directors shall have the power to cause the Company to be reorganized as a corporation (such corporation or other issuer entity being hereinafter referred to as a “Public Vehicle”) under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware by incorporation, merger, conversion, contribution, formation of a corporate Subsidiary or other permissible manner (a “Conversion”), and the Members shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to effectuate such Conversion and take such actions as are reasonably necessary or desirable to complete the Initial Public Offering in a manner designed to achieve a fair price and broad public distribution of the securities being offered in the Initial Public Offering. (b) If applicable, the Members holding Units shall receive, in exchange for their Units of a particular class, shares of stock in the Public Vehicle of the relevant class having the same relative seniority, preference, accumulated dividends, dividend rate, dividend accumulation and compounding and, in the case of the Class A Units, the other characteristics of the Class A Units, voting, management and consent rights, economic interest and other rights and obligations (and in no event shall such interest, rights or obligations be less favorable to such Member than the terms of their respective Units) in the Public Vehicle as are set forth in this Agreement applicable to the Units, subject to any modifications deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors as a result of the Conversion or if advisable in order to effectuate the Initial Public Offering. (c) In such event, the Public Vehicle and the Members (in their capacities as stockholders of the Public Vehicle) shall enter into a stockholders’ agreement providing for such terms and conditions as are necessary for the rights and obligations and provisions of this Agreement that survive an Initial Public Offering (and do not otherwise adversely affect the ability to effectuate the Initial Public Offering) to continue to apply to the Public Vehicle, the stockholders of the Public Vehicle and the capital stock of the Public Vehicle, including (i) an agreement to vote all shares of capital stock held by such stockholders to elect the Board of Directors of such resulting corporation in accordance with the substance of Section 6.1, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Members contained herein (which may, at the election of the holders of a Majority Class A Interest, be contained in the Public Vehicle’s certificate of incorporation). (d) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3.8, no Member will have the right or power to veto, vote for or against, amend, modify or delay a Conversion or the Initial Public Offering. In furtherance of the foregoing, each Member hereby makes, constitutes and appoints the Company its true and lawful attorney, for it and in its name, place and stead and for its use and benefit, to act as its proxy in respect of any vote or approval of Members required to give effect to this Section 3.8, including any vote or approval required under the Act. The proxy granted pursuant to this Section 3.8(d) is a special proxy coupled with an interest and is irrevocable. (e) The Company and the Members hereby agree to use their commercially reasonable efforts to structure the Conversion to maximize the ability of the Members to aggregate (or “tack”) the period during which they hold their Units together with the period during which they hold shares of capital stock of the Public Vehicle for purposes of the United States securities laws, including Rule 144 under the Securities Act. (f) Each Member (including any Transferee thereof) agrees, if requested by the Company and a managing underwriter, if any, in connection with any Initial Public Offering and upon confirmation reasonably satisfactory to such Member that all officers and directors of the Company and all holders, collectively with their Affiliates and Approved Funds, of one percent (1%) or greater of Equity Securities of the Company shall enter into similar agreements, thereby agreeing not to Transfer any Equity Securities of the Company held by it for one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of the relevant registration statement filed under the Securities Act in connection with the Initial Public Offering, as such managing underwriter shall specify reasonably and in good faith. Each Member shall enter into customary letter agreements to the foregoing effect if so, requested by the Company and the managing underwriter, if any. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event any Member is released by the Company and the managing underwriter, if any, from the restrictions contemplated by this Section 3.8(f), all other Members shall be released from such restrictions pro-rata. (g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, the restrictions contained in this Agreement shall not apply to Units, any other Equity Securities or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Units or other Equity Securities acquired by any Member, including acquired by any of their respective Affiliates or Approved Funds, following the effective date of the first registration statement of the Company covering common stock (or other securities) to be sold on behalf of the Company in an underwritten public offering.
Shelf Takedown At any time and from time to time following the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement required by subsection 2.1.1 or 2.1.2, any Holder(s) may request to sell all or a portion of their Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering that is registered pursuant to such shelf registration statement (a “Shelf Underwritten Offering”) provided that such Holder(s) (a) reasonably expect aggregate gross proceeds in excess of $50,000,000 from such Shelf Underwritten Offering or (b) reasonably expects to sell all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder in such Shelf Underwritten Offering but in no event for less than $10,000,000 in aggregate gross proceeds. All requests for a Shelf Underwritten Offering shall be made by giving written notice to the Company (the “Shelf Takedown Notice”). Each Shelf Takedown Notice shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Shelf Underwritten Offering and the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of such Shelf Underwritten Offering. Within five (5) business days after receipt of any Shelf Takedown Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested Shelf Underwritten Offering to all other Holders of Registrable Securities (the “Company Shelf Takedown Notice”) and, subject to reductions consistent with the Pro Rata calculations in subsection 2.2.4, shall include in such Shelf Underwritten Offering all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein, within five (5) days after sending the Company Shelf Takedown Notice. The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in a form as is customary in Underwritten Offerings of securities by the Company with the managing Underwriter or Underwriters selected by the initiating Holder(s) after consultation with the Company and shall take all such other reasonable actions as are requested by the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities. In connection with any Shelf Underwritten Offering contemplated by this subsection 2.1.3, subject to Section 3.4 and Article IV, the underwriting agreement into which each Holder and the Company shall enter shall contain such representations, covenants, indemnities and other rights and obligations of the Company and the selling stockholders as are customary in Underwritten Offerings of securities by the Company.
If there is a permitted secondary offering (1) If the Issuer is an emerging issuer and you have sold in a permitted secondary offering 10% or more of your escrow securities, your escrow securities will be released as follows: For delivery to complete the IPO All escrow securities sold by you in the permitted secondary offering 6 months after the listing date 1/6 of your remaining escrow securities 12 months after the listing date 1/5 of your remaining escrow securities 18 months after the listing date 1/4 of your remaining escrow securities 24 months after the listing date 1/3 of your remaining escrow securities 30 months after the listing date 1/2 of your remaining escrow securities 36 months after the listing date your remaining escrow securities *In the simplest case, where there are no changes to the remaining escrow securities upon completion of the permitted secondary offering and no additional escrow securities, the release schedule outlined above results in the remaining escrow securities being released in equal tranches of 16 2/3%. (2) If the Issuer is an emerging issuer and you have sold in a permitted secondary offering less than 10% of your escrow securities, your escrow securities will be released as follows: For delivery to complete the IPO All escrow securities sold by you in the permitted secondary offering On the listing date 1/10 of your original number of escrow securities less the escrow securities sold by you in the permitted secondary offering 6 months after the listing date 1/6 of your remaining escrow securities 12 months after the listing date 1/5 of your remaining escrow securities 18 months after the listing date 1/4 of your remaining escrow securities 24 months after the listing date 1/3 of your remaining escrow securities 30 months after the listing date 1/2 of your remaining escrow securities 36 months after the listing date your remaining escrow securities *In the simplest case, where there are no changes to the remaining escrow securities upon completion of the permitted secondary offering and no additional escrow securities, the release schedule outlined above results in the remaining escrow securities being released in equal tranches of 16 2/3% after completion of the release on the listing date.
Requested Underwritten Offerings If the Initiating Holders request an underwritten offering pursuant to a registration under Section 2.1 (pursuant to a request for a registration statement to be filed in connection with a specific underwritten offering or a request for a shelf takedown in the form of an underwritten offering), the Company shall enter into a customary underwriting agreement with the underwriters. Such underwriting agreement shall (i) be satisfactory in form and substance to the Majority Participating Holders, (ii) contain terms not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement and (iii) contain such representations and warranties by, and such other agreements on the part of, the Company and such other terms as are generally prevailing in agreements of that type, including, without limitation, indemnities and contribution agreements on substantially the same terms as those contained herein (it being understood that an underwriting agreement in substantially the form of the underwriting agreement for the IPO shall be deemed to satisfy the foregoing requirements). Any Participating Holder shall be a party to such underwriting agreement and may, at its option, require that any or all of the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of such underwriters shall also be made to and for the benefit of such Participating Holder and that any or all of the conditions precedent to the obligations of such underwriters under such underwriting agreement be conditions precedent to the obligations of such Participating Holder; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to make any representations or warranties with respect to written information specifically provided by a Participating Holder for inclusion in the registration statement. Each such Participating Holder shall not be required to make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the Company or the underwriters other than representations, warranties or agreements regarding such Participating Holder, its ownership of and title to the Registrable Securities, any written information specifically provided by such Participating Holder for inclusion in the registration statement and its intended method of distribution; and any liability of such Participating Holder to any underwriter or other Person under such underwriting agreement shall be limited to the amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder upon the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration statement and shall be limited to liability for written information specifically provided by such Participating Holder.